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To all Wine Exchangers, A few months back we featured the wines of one Msr. Gilles Troullier, for our money one of the greatest winemakers working in France today.  Unfortunately, we were still waiting for one more wine to ‘land’ on our shores but couldn’t contain ourselves. The Troullier Cotes Catalanes De-La 2013 has just […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Only a week or so ago, among our forecasts for this coming year, we said that Spain would continue to be a source for sensational values and that the Rioja cavalcade of hits would continue.  Well, the Rioja hotline is open and operators are standing by.  As we looked at the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Surprise, Surprise, Surprise! Okay, sorry for the Gomer Pyle reference (us ole timers get it) but what do you know, the 2012 Haut Brion takes top honors from Robert Parker and Antonio Galloni as their top-scoring wine of the vintage! The 2012 harvest was one that most people wrote off but, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Alright everyone, you’ll just have to accept the facts. South America is almost all grown up. Yes, it takes a while. Vineyards don’t show you their stuff until they’re older, then you have to figure out if you have the right vines planted in the right spot. Wine growing and producing […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Not long ago we told the story of Randy Rozak, the ‘Fair Price Kid’, an anomaly in both the Santa Rita Hills where his winery is located, and in California in general.  His neighbors can’t seem to figure out what his problem is.  Why would someone make very good wine in […]

When you are talking to someone one-on-one, or even in a small group, you can figure out pretty quickly what someone’s level of wine knowledge is based on comments and conversation.  There are a lot of people in the world considered ‘experts’ simply because they know a little bit more than the people around them.  […]

To all Wine Exchangers, White Bordeaux is something we rarely seem to offer these days and that's a real shame. And it begs the question, why don't we just offer more of them considering the quality of the wines vis-a-vis the price makes many of them an undeniably great option? Two factors. One, the weakness […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Many times when we’re in Bordeaux on our buying trips, we may find a wine we love but there is just not enough to send as a complete offer.  Yet, they’re wines we dig so much that we still want to buy them. The three wines we’re offering today are wines […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Do you think you know Spanish Garnacha? Think again. Never took the plunge on one of Spain’s greatest indigenous grapes? Now you should. The topic of Spanish Garnacha (what the French call ‘Grenache’, the core grape of Chateauneuf du Pape) is really starting to heat up as we’re seeing more, and […]

To all Wine Exchangers, From the label you can tell that the gang at Roots Run Deep Winery, the crafters of Educated Guess, obviously love numbers. So here goes. Educated Guess Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2013 is: 86% Napa Valley 7% Paso Robles 7% Lake County And its 88% Cabernet Sauvignon 10% Merlot 1% Cabernet […]